[TUHS] ANSI (C) vs IEEE (POSIX) Standards Body Selection

G. Branden Robinson g.branden.robinson at gmail.com
Thu Jun 27 14:52:48 AEST 2024


At 2024-06-27T16:27, Alan Coopersmith via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> After the merger, Motif was included, along with CDE and the X Window
> System, as part of The Open Group's "Unix 98 Workstation" standard.
> Later versions of the Unix standards dropped the GUI components
> altogether.
>
> > Motif, like X, was easily used by anyone who was an MIT CS grad
> > student.  OpenLook might have been used by Sun Workstation
> > programmers, but I don't know if it ever appeared on any other
> > system.
>
> At least the Xview library and olvm window manager were released as
> open source, and were available on some early Linux distros.  Some
> other applications are still available from either
> https://www.darwinsys.com/olcd/ or
> https://github.com/IanDarwin/OpenLookCDROM .

I am curious to know if OLIT and/or MoOLIT ever escaped in source form.

Regards,
Branden
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